I'm playing from NZ and I must say that we are a few years behind the rest of the world when it comes to internet. The problem is I haven't been able to play properly since this weekend.
I can join and start a game with a ping around 150ms. But after a while it just goes up to about 1500ms and I get disconnected. The whole process takes about 3 for 4 mins before I can click on reconnect.

1) What is going on?? :-s

2) How about a quicker process of dropping players when a bad connection is detected?